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Blog #9 - ‘The Nego has a dream’.

‘The Nego has a dream’. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I have a dream’ Speech address the American people to discuss equality and rights for the African American population of America. He addresses America as in indusial, with the purpose to educate, persuade and convince the white population of America to change their ways, and look at people as people. We know this because of MLK’s excessive use of a harsh tone, this entails that he speaks genuinely from the heart, without boundary he spoke. In the context of MLK's speech, it was never actually completed/finalized leading up to the speech and even during the speech, leading up to going on stage he was still making notes and changing words and arguments. It was not until he was on stage and uttered the 4 words “I have a dream” that changed the course of human history forever. This shows that MLK identifies his audience almost as a fellow ‘Nego’ (for lack of better words), he does not see them as a superior power over him, nothing he needs to plan for, In the speech “I have a dream’ it was never called for until it happened”
MLK speaks to America as a Negro, with stylistic rhetorical devices choices that were designed to make the listener compare two monuments of significance as the Lincoln monument “in whose symbolic monument shadow we stand today.” linking it to the location, the monument of Lincoln is a great tribute to who stooped for their work and made something completely unprecedented happen. As well “a great beacon light of hope…”, this adds to the initial augment of aspiring to change in American history as Lincoln had done, then the metaphor creates imagery of a light tower, attracting all short of people of ethnicity, race and gender towards the light (place they need to be) source similarly to how they would attract all sorts of water boats, (boats, container ships), towards where they want to be in this case land = safety. MLK also has a use of foreshadowing where he begins the speech saying, “join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.” Where he literally tells people what they will do together today. It's convincing that way.

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